Laurance Rockefeller Quotes
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
-
It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
-
To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
-
I would like to see America some day.
-
I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
-
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
-
I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
-
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
-
I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
-
As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
-
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
-
You don't fight ideas with bombs.
-
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
-
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
-
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
-
I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
-
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
-
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
-
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
-
There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
-
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
-
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
